Colombo (News 1st) - Seventy-nine Colombian police officers and several oil company workers who had been taken hostage for more than a day by area residents near an oil exploration facility in the Caqueta Province were freed on Friday. Colombian President Gustavo Petro earlier appealed to the ...

Colombo (News 1st) - Actor Tom Sizemore who starred opposite Tom Hanks in 'Saving Private Ryan' has died of a brain aneurysm at the age of 61. Some of his other roles included hits such as 'Black Hawk Down', 'Natural Born Killers', 'Devil in a Blue Dress' and ...

Colombo (News 1st) - The furious back-and-forth battle surrounding Pakistan's political and economic future appeared to take another democratic step forward with the country's President, Dr. Arif Alvi, on Friday naming April 30 as the fresh date for elections in the largest provinc...

COLOMBO (News 1st); The IMF Mission in Sri Lanka says that the decision taken by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to raise the policy rate is appropriate and in line with its objectives set under the inflation targeting framework. Peter Breuer, Senior Mission Chief for Sri Lanka, and Masahiro Nozaki, ...